So what do you think of <this> list's behaviour?

Messages coming from it have NO Reply-To Header line and as a result I
have to hit CTL-R and where I normally get a choice of the group or a
reply to the author (From) I just get (in this case you) and have to CC
the list manually.

I only get the one choice. Sucks. But then my MUA only gives me a
choice of replying to From: or Reply-To:

Of course the list owners (of most of the lists I hang on) could say,
with some justification, that the MTA did not mung the header. The
message was From: the author, the list set the Reply-To: (and the MTA
should not touch it) so it works correctly with non-munging MTAs.

For non-list replies I have the choice of replying to the original
author or all the recipients plus the author.

I have little sympathy for the author of the blurb at the quoted URL.
Nothing will save him if he does not bother to look at the address his
reply is going to. Besides which his page is broken: try following the
link to discussion of his sad refrain. He is just as likely to hit the
g key as the r. They are diagonally adjacent after all. I just hit
CTL-R and I get a dialog choice of the From: or Reply-To: with the
addresses spelt out.

But in a way you are correct. The MTA does not need to mung the
headers. The list software should do it properly in the first place.

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 20:19:23 +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 07:28:18AM +0200, Atif Ghaffar wrote:
>> Is it possible to rewrite/add Reply-To headers to incoming emails?
>> Some mailing lists do not set Reply-To headers and most reply goes
>> to singular users instead of the lists hence filling the list with
>> questions only.
>
>see http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
>
>reply-to should *NOT* be set by mailing lists.
>
>
>> So is it possible without external program?
>
>nope. and you don't want to do it anyway.
>
>craig
>
>--

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